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“We’ve had to start some of these project activities a little later than we had hoped—how has our wiggle-room for starting these remaining activities changed?” Float (also called slack) is how much time a certain project activity’s start can be delayed without delaying the finish date of the entire project. Please see the earlier posting […]

“How long can I put off starting this activity and not be in trouble?” When managing a project schedule, each activity in the schedule network diagram should have its float indicated. Float (also called slack) is how much time a certain project activity’s start can be delayed without delaying the finish date of the entire […]

The Critical Path Method (CPM) is a scheduling technique that demonstrates the time periods for which it’s possible to perform a project activity. This is accomplished through calculating for each activity the early start, late start, early finish, and late finish. Individual activities also have float, which is the amount of flexible time for the […]

Develop Schedule is one of the 42 project management processes described in the fourth edition PMBOK®. It’s one of the six Time knowledge area processes, and one of the twenty Planning processes. The purpose of this particularly important process is to create the project schedule. This is the most important Time process, and there are […]